ironlake

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by ironlake 2mo ago
I'm a senior developer. I'm OK at my job and plan to retire in the next 5-7 years. I focus on delivering quality software that meets the needs of the users that I serve. That's it. Imposter syndrome is something you should ta
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by ironlake 2mo ago
Should all developers have work that is above average quality? It's OK to meet the standards of the job and not strive for greatness at your day job. The corporation you work for will not care.
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by ironlake 2y ago
IBM PCjr. Not exactly a regret. It was a family computer when I was a tween. They made the best decision they could based on the information available at the time. But it was not a great product.
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by ironlake 2y ago
> settled on racist teachers If the population of gifted kids is statistically over-represented by white kids, then one of these must be true: • The test doesn't measure giftedness, but rather level of education. So we would expect
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by ironlake 2y ago
Is this another fake like the Google bot that made reservations at a restaurant?
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by ironlake 2y ago
Forth. I learned it very late in my programming career which started with Java. It just feels like home in a way that no other language ever has. Mostly useless tho
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by ironlake 2y ago
I worked for an international company with more than 100,000 employees. They basically never stopped doing layoffs. It was just background noise all the time. I got laid off after 5+ years, but I was ready to go. Before that, I was laid off
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by ironlake 2y ago
My experience with over 25 years as a software developer is that the best way to optimize for salary is to switch companies every 3-7 years. There are risks. You either accept the risks or accept that you're not making as much as you c
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Is GPT-4 conscious? No, but it could be(arxiv.org)
4 points by ironlake 2y ago|1 comments
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by ironlake 2y ago
Both of my adult children have foregone career paths for menial jobs (retail worker and admin stuff). So far, they are both really happy. Living their lives without stress or overtime. Blue collar work wears out the body. Are you going to b
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by ironlake 2y ago
They did not announce they were working on affordable cars, or at least not a new model that would be more affordable than the models they have now. Musk pushed all questions about new models to the Robotaxi event in August and the media fi
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by ironlake 3y ago
Thanks for that perspective. I haven't done any MacOS development.
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by ironlake 3y ago
I am an iOS developer and I haven't used ObjC in over five years. There probably isn't any reason to start a new app or library with anything other than Swift. So it's just going to depend on the legacy code base.
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by ironlake 3y ago
These numbers include upward revisions for past months. You make a good point about these types of numbers. It's hard to get accurate and timely data in the field of economics, and headlines will never show the revisions, so the inform
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by ironlake 3y ago
The "ignorant hipster" comment is uncalled-for. There's nothing wrong with accessible tools. But I agree with all your points. With regard to point 4, if I download a desktop app for my Macbook and it's Electron, I see i
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by ironlake 3y ago
In the books, each civilization can have a hiding gene and/or an exterminating gene. At the beginning of the story, humanity has neither. The idea is that civilizations without the hiding gene won't last long. So it's not rat
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by ironlake 3y ago
Chess is immensely more popular since Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
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by ironlake 3y ago
As an individual contributor software engineer, I've worked with offshore developers before and always found the experience unproductive. The problem is always management tells me to help them so they can learn. I don't mind being
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by ironlake 3y ago
I think many companies are anticipating a significant downturn in the economy and are trying to get ahead of it. Layoffs help stock prices almost immediately and management get bonuses for increasing the bottom line. Workers are defenseless
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by ironlake 3y ago
I miss the chaos of Obj-C. Swift makes way too much sense.
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by ironlake 3y ago
Fair use also implies you legally acquired the content to begin with. They trained the data on pirated collections of text. If they had bought a copy of each magazine or book – just one copy – then maybe it's fair use. They couldn&#x27
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by ironlake 3y ago
It's a 50% rise in vacancy rate, which is literally not nothing. It has impacted the market for office building construction. Offices are starting to feel like malls: they exist and serve a function, but aren't strictly necessary.
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by ironlake 3y ago
Son of a Senator hires grandson of a Federal Judge and they are the best investment duo in history. I bet the key to his success is on the bookshelf.
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by ironlake 3y ago
Meta can afford to keep Threads on life support forever. I use Threads daily and it's active and informative for me. It's not as good as Twitter, but much better than X for my uses. The Twitter diaspora will never be as consolidat
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by ironlake 3y ago
LLMs might hit a wall. Any technology could hit a wall. ChatGPT could be the next Segway. But, like the Segway, LLMs are useful now. I think the impact of "stuff like ChatGPT" on software engineering will equal the impact of the c
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by ironlake 3y ago
And the compilers. Do software engineers even write code anymore? It all gets compiled so why do we pay these people so much?
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by ironlake 3y ago
>best scenario would be to get completely removed from their lists I don't think there is any action a consumer can take to reduce the number of calls or get removed from a company's lists. There is no incentive for the company
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by ironlake 3y ago
I have started answering the phone with, "Thanks for calling the Labor Organizing Hotline, how can we help you unionize your workplace today?" The hope is that it results in some self-reflection for the caller, though it hasn&#x27
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by ironlake 3y ago
I'm 52 and recovering from chicken wings I ate last Friday. Fiber, some gut-health tea, and my daily Activa should get me back to full recuperation within a few days. In the meantime, bidet has been a lifesaver.
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by ironlake 3y ago
Talking about UBI is like talking about a space elevator. The hypotheticals might be entertaining, but it's not something we're likely to see in our lifetimes. UBI should lift everyone about the poverty level so no one would &quot

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